5 Ways to Stop the Afternoon Chaos & Meltdowns
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
5 Ways to Stop the Afternoon Chaos & Meltdowns
How many of you have kids who hold it together at school, but then save the meltdown for you at the end of the day? Or maybe you have a teen or tween who just grunts and won’t open up, just shuts down? That time after work and before dinner can be brutal, so I want to give you some ideas to stop the afternoon chaos.
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| 1:04.1 | So do you have a child who holds it together all day at school for the teachers, but then walks in |
| 1:10.4 | the door and saves a nasty meltdown |
| 1:13.0 | for you, right? Or maybe you have a teen or tween who at the end of the day just kind of grunts |
| 1:18.1 | and they won't open up about anything. They just kind of shut down. And that afternoon evening time, |
| 1:24.5 | right, you've been at work, right? It's been a long day. It's before dinner. |
| 1:28.7 | So everybody's kind of tired and hungry. It's brutal. So I want to give you some ideas |
| 1:33.5 | to stop some of that afternoon chaos on this episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. |
| 1:40.6 | So this podcast opening is dedicated to Candace in Australia because she's awesome and emailed our |
| 1:48.6 | son and said, hey, when I listen to your dad's podcast, I always giggle when he says celebrate calm.com |
| 1:54.0 | because the way we say calm is how you say calm and the way we say calm is how you say calm. |
| 1:59.8 | Could you please ask your dad |
| 2:01.2 | to shout out to all the Australians and when he says the website, if he could swap those words |
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